Learning Targets:- Compare different methods of expressing through Portraits- Experiment with practical drawing skills- Analyze and Advise peers work- Understand a apply drawing process within a final Pencil Portrait- Evaluate in detail both written and spoken contexts- Create a online dialogue about artworks with peers

List of things you need to have done for this project:

Research - Write up notes about Self Portraits

Understanding - Compare and contrast the three artist pictures verbally in class

Research and IDeas - Selfie Photograph with expression. Photo printed and composition explained

Experimentation - Upside down drawing, color theory used and your pros and cons about the work

Technique - How to use a grid to draw the face, focus on hair. complete detail for HOMEWORK

Using Audioboo you should make Boos and post them to your profile. You should have the following posted:- Analyze and Evaluate your Pencil Self-Portrait- DESCRIBE, RELATE, ANALYZE, INTERPRET, EVALUATE a staff Artwork from Saint Luke's Gallery- Comment on 2 classmate's Boos about an analysis. Explain why you agree of disagree with their interpretation

Welcome to audioboo

Audioboo is a website and an application (for iPhone OS, iPad, Android and Blackberry 10) which allows users to listen to, record and share sound files.

Here, you will post your artworks and the work of others along with voice recordings. You will give opinions, analyze and evaluate. later you can comment on others work and give different feedback.Do you agree with your peers interpretations? Why? Why Not?

How well can you describe an artwork?

Choose one artwork. Describe it in an much detail so that a friend can draw it without ever seeing the art work.WHAT PROBLEMS DO YOU FACE WHEN YOU DESCRIBE IN DETAIL?

What media can you see?

What are your immediate thoughts about each one?

How does the media affect the mood?

How does the color effect the mood?

Why do you think certain media has been chosen for each one according to the mood?How can you tackle the problems of describing in detail?

mica angela hendricks

USA-based graphic artist and illustrator Mica Angela Hendricks has recently embarked on an interesting project—an art collaboration with her 4 year old daughter.

What started as her daughter discreetly scribbling some add-on bodies to the faces she drew became an organic project that combined beautifully the different styles of the parent and child.

Hendricks later added color and bodies to the drawings that they had created together, finishing their mother-daughter artworks.

According to Hendricks, she just loved her daughter’s work and her simple intent to make her mother’s work better.

Your task is to create a research page about this artist and her son. Include:

- Some images from this artist and her child and the name of the artwork (if you can find it)- Her name and her sons/daughters name- What is your first impression - What did you first think, what did it remind you of?- How do you think it is made (the process)- What media has been used?- What ideas does this give you for making your own portrait.

Composing that portrait

portraits PPt

Using a grid to draw your portrait

First you'll need the photo you choose printed to A4. Ideally you will need a A3 piece of good quality paper to draw on. You will draw you photo twice as big as it is printed. Draw a grid over the top of the photo. You may choose to draw the grid directly on the photo or if the photo needs to be preserved, you may create the grid on a piece of acetate and place the acetate on the photo. The size of your grid squares will be dictated by the size of the photo. Obviously, the smaller the photo, the smaller the grid squares. On the flip side of this, larger photos would require larger squares. It is essential that you make sure that the grid that you draw on the photo and the grid that you draw on your paper are proportional to each other. If they aren't, then you will have distortion in your drawing.

Now you will draw a grid that is proportional to the grid on your photo on your drawing surface. For example, if your photo is 8" by 8" and you have made a grid made of inch squares, your drawing paper could be 16" by 16". A good way of checking to see if your drawing grid matches your photo grid is counting the number of boxes. You should have the same number of boxes on both grids. If you don't, then you've done something wrong.Next, draw what shapes, lines, and values that you see in each square on the photo to the corresponding square on the drawing surface. Pay special attention to the positive and negative shapes in each square. Try not to think about what object you are drawing. Instead, concentrate on just the shapes, lines, and values. Draw each square and take your time. In the end, you'll find that you've created an accurate drawing from a photo.Photo graph what you have done and e-mail me the result. I'll give you feedback.

Rubric for a Pencil portrait

Drawing hair

Drawing hair is one of the important step in pencil portraits. Most of the beginners in drawing find it difficult to draw hair in a realistic manner. It is vital to understand the different types of hair, the hair volume and the style. According to the nature of hair, you need to adjust the shades and strokes. Pencil drawings of female hair looks attractive when it is crafted in a perfect way. You can not make a realistic hair drawing by simply drawing a bunch of lines.

Consider the volume of hair while drawing

There are more than 1 million strands of hair on your head and hence achieving a 3-dimensional look is necessary. Simple drawing with many lines may not help you to create the real look.

Texture, halftone and highlight are important elements in a drawing.

Hair may be curly, spiked, wavy or short. To achieve an attractive look, focus on the shadows and show the role of light on the hair strands.

Do not try to draw each and every strand, instead try to create an illusion about the volume.

While highlighting, try to use thin and light strokes.

It is better to start a stroke from the root of hair and taper the stroke towards the tip.

Here are some of the selected drawings of curly and normal hair. Look at these examples and try to draw beautifully!

1. Start by drawing the different shapes of the hair2. draw many lines following the contour of those different parts3. Blur this area to create tones, try to leave the highlighted parts4. Take a dark EE pencil and work into the darkest areas5. Smudge again6. Take a thin rubber and take out lines f hair and rub away more high lights7. Work on the mid tones with a 4b pencil8. Keep adding and taking away until it feels right

toning the face

Nose

drawing eyes

Facial Proportion

Facial proportion different angles

Using Soft pastels

GCSE development by Joanne Park

3. Add two more colors. The face is starting to take shape.We're going for "normal" colors. Try to create a fun, funky one that is full of life and color! I want to create a portrait that is whimsical and lighthearted. Don't be concerned about getting the proportions exactly correct or creating an exact likeness of you. Have fun and explore the medium of pastels.

4. Next, add more colors. Still don't blend yet. Take note of how pastel looks when it hasn't been blended. There's a really nice sense of immediacy and energy to pastel that isn't blended.If you want to, you can create the whole pastel portrait without blending at all. At this point, color side-by-side, rather than doing any overlapping.

1. sketch in the outline of the portrait. The outline should remain clear (and not smudge away) while you fill in the colors with pastel. Drawing your outlines in colored pencil is a good tip when learning how to use pastels.

2. Using a mulberry colored pastel, draw in the darks.Don't want to use black for two reasons:1. Because black would be too dark for this stage. The goal at this stage is to create a build-up of color.2. Because black pastels tend to lack depth and look lifeless. Black should only be used sparingly!

At this point, do not blended the pastel at all. That's for later. Here is an extreme close-up of how the pastel looks on the paper:

5. Now you can blend the pastels using your finger. See what a difference it makes? Compare the image below with the version above. Pastel painting TIP:After you blend pastel with your finger, you will need to either wash your hands or use moist cleaning wipes for easy clean up. If you don't clean off your fingers, the pastel that is on your fingers will smudge into whatever color you use next.

While blending helps to smooth out the pastel painting, it also loses a sense of raw immediacy and energy. It's my goal now to bring some of that energy back.

Compare the two close-ups below to see how the blended pastel looks different from the non-blended pastel:

Using Pen and continuous contour

Contours follow the edge of the shapes and can be creates using line. You can jazz it up by making it a continuous line. Look as the examples below to give you some ideas.

For a great demonstration of how to use charcoal click on the link below